President Trump has been pressuring the postmaster general to double the shipping rates the U.S. Postal Service charges e-commerce giant Amazon, according to a nearly unbelievable account in the Washington Post. Can Trump really do that? It’s a question we’ve asked many times during the last 16 months. The answer this time is — probably not.

Trump, of course, has been attacking Amazon for months, out of personal animosity toward its CEO, Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, which routinely publishes unflattering Trump material (like the postal scoop it just got from, well, who knows). So in the august tradition of history’s best statesmen, Trump wants to use his power as president to punish a single company for petty personal reasons.

Rachel Maddow revisits the history of Richard Nixon trying to use the IRS to audit his personal political enemies and notes the parallels with Donald Trump's attempt to punish Amazon with higher postal rates because of his personal disdain for The Washington Post.

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again his hate for the nation to divide it is so evident he lies about what Clapper said. He is doing this to obstruct justice.

If he was not guilty he would just let the investigation go on. Or ask for an independent counsel that is a partisan dem with unlimited resources to do the investigation on ALL thing like they did with Clinton..

Trump claims Clapper 'admitted' the FBI spied on his campaign. But Clapper said the opposite.

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Trump claims Clapper 'admitted' the FBI spied on his campaign. But Clapper said the opposite.
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President Trump on Wednesday falsely claimed that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper conceded the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign in 2016.

“If you look at Clapper, he sort of admitted they had spies in the campaign, yesterday, inadvertently,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn.

Except Clapper said precisely the opposite.

Appearing on ABC’s “The View” Tuesday, Clapper was asked by co-host Joy Behar whether the bureau was, indeed, spying on the Trump campaign — as the president and his allies have claimed.

“No, they were not,” Clapper replied. “They were spying on — a term I don’t particularly like — but on what the Russians were doing. Trying to understand were the Russians infiltrating, trying to gain access, trying to gain leverage or influence — which is what they do.”

“Well, why doesn’t he like that? He should be happy,” Behar said.

“He should be,” Clapper said.

During a morning tweetstorm earlier Wednesday, Trump misquoted Clapper as saying “Trump should be happy that FBI was SPYING on his campaign.”

President Trump and former National Intelligence Director James Clapper. (Photos: Jacquelyn Martin/AP, Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
Clapper was asked about Trump’s tweet in a radio interview on Wednesday morning.

“I think the president has deliberately distorted the facts here,” Clapper told WAMU’s Joshua Johnson. “There was no spying on the campaign. The interest was in what the Russians were doing, to attempt to infiltrate, gain leverage, influence whatever with the campaign. What the FBI was attempting to do was protect our political system against meddling and incursions by another nation, an adversary nation — Russia.”

According to the New York Times, the FBI dispatched an informant to talk to two Trump campaign advisers — George Papadopoulos and Carter Page — after it “received evidence that the pair had suspicious contacts linked to Russia during the campaign.”

On Sunday, Trump called for a federal probe “into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes.”

Trump’s unprecedented public demands to the Justice Department have alarmed observers, who say the actions could provoke a constitutional crisis.

Critics believe Trump is using the “spy” narrative to preemptively discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia and Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.

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Trumps hate is being passed on by his federal prosecutors. In essence, Fabricating evidence... IE trump lies... can any trump appointed or new hires be trusted to not lie. Again this is a new right-wing core value. Lying/hate is now acceptable in the courts too.

The federal prosecutor who has pursued hundreds of Trump inauguration protesters on unprecedented felony riot charges for over a year lied to the court about edits her team made to a key video filmed by right-wing operative James O’Keefe’s organization, a judge found Wednesday. Judge Robert Morin agreed with defense lawyers that Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Kerkhoff had illegally suppressed evidence, but declined to make a final ruling on their motion to dismiss all charges in light of the government’s cheating. The full video captures an undercover police officer saying of organizers from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), “I don’t think they know anything about any of the upper echelon stuff.” But that moment was edited out of the video before prosecutors turned it over to defense counsel in an earlier case, and was only discovered after the court ordered the government to hand over the full, unedited files.

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we deserve to have somebody at the EPA who actually does protect our envirnment.

Teacher who confronted Scott Pruitt responds to calls for civility

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Teacher Kristin Mink, who confronted Trump EPA Chief Scott Pruitt in a restaurant over his mounting scandals and asked him to resign, joins The Beat. Mink defends her actions, saying calls for “civility” are a “waste of time”. Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page notes that while those on the left are calling for civility, the “Trump side” has “little respect for it” until “someone is uncivil towards them”

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According to new reporting from the Associated Press, President Trump floated the idea of invading Venezuela multiple times last summer. Chris Jansing speaks with the reporter who broke the story, Joshua Goodman, about if this idea was more than the president just speaking out loud.

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During a pair of recent political rallies, Trump lashed out repeatedly at what he now calls the 'fake, fake, disgusting media.' Pulitzer Prize-winning author & presidential historian Jon Meacham joins to discuss the president's attacks on journalists.

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